Woven wire fabric



Aug. 1935- c. A. SCHEELER 2,010,964

WOVEN WIRE FABRIC Filed Aug. 26, 1952 law/aka? 13 4M 2% I fl 51 0/7?eg/S Patented Aug. 13, 1935 WOVEN WIRE FABRIC Charles A. Scheeler,Buffalo, N. Y., assignor to Buffalo Wire Works 00., Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., a corporation of New York Application August 26,1932, Serial No.630,556

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a woven wire fabric which is more particularlyintended for use as a screen in banks to protect officers from bullets 5fired from arms in the hands of bandits, but the same may also be usedfor other purposes. 7

It is the object of this invention to provide a fabric in which helicaltransverse wires are interwoven with longitudinal wires so as to producea product which is closely knit so as to serve as a protection againstan attack by. bandits using firearms. r

In the accompanyingdrawing:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary plan view showing the woven wire fabric made inaccordance with my improvements.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same taken on line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference indicate like parts in both figures ofthe drawing.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral represents a plurality of warp orlongitudinal wires which in some instances may be somewhat wavy in theactual fabric, but are represented in the drawing as straight forconvenience of illustration. These longitudinal or warp wiresv areseparated from each other a suitable dis-' The several transwires passesover one of the longitudinal wires anda turn of an adjacent helical wirepasses under the same longitudinal wire. In the completed fabric theseveral helical transverse wires are closely assembled so that thecurved parts of the turns of one set of alternate transverse wires arelocated between adjacent longitudinal wires and trend in one directionand are nested in the curved parts of the turns of the set of alternate10 transverse wires.

r A tightly woven fabric is thus formed which is practicallybullet-proof inasmuch as a bullet fired against the same will not beable to penetrate the fabric but instead will rebound or richochet dueto theplurality of inclined surfaces which are presented to the bulletsby the turns of the helical transverse wires, and thus save from harmanyone who is protected by this fabric against attack by bandits usingfirearms. 20

This fabric is also useful as a fine screen in which a very strongdurable surface is required to resist wear and yet suificient openingsmust be present to permit any liquid to be drained readily from a massof solid matter.

I claim as my invention:

A woven wire fabric comprising a plurality of straight longitudinalwires, and a plurality of helical transverse wires, the transverse wiresbeing interwoven with the longitudinal wires so 30 that adjacenttransverse wires pass under and over the same longitudinal wire and eachtransverse wire passes over one and under the next adjacent longitudinalwire, said adjacent helical transverse wires trending in oppositedirections and being closely woven whereby the several wires form atightly woven fabric.

CHARLES A. SCHEELER.

